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Woman's story draws strong reactions

Sunday's heartrending story about Aesha, a young Afghan woman who was mutilated by her family for seeking her freedom, drew hundreds of comments from CNN readers. Here is one that sums up many people's reactions:

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Jessica Ravitz wrote the article so well that the difficulty in trying to help Aesha is palpable. I became frustrated just reading the article with her behavior, but also couldn't stop reading. Admittedly, my reaction was to think of her as a "spoiled little brat" and that she needed to "act her age". But when I see Jamila's words about how she never had a real childhood, when I think about being given away at 12 to pay for someone else crimes, and when I look at the pictures of the brutality, I understand that her psyche and the torment she has endured is something that I will never comprehend.

It's hard because this is not a success story. But I think this article keeps the ugly face on what is happening to women over there. A success story makes you feel good and this one does not; there are women who will be abused and struggle their entire lives with no happy ending. It's important to bear that in mind.

President Barack Obama will deliver the commencement address Monday night for graduates at Joplin High School, which has met in a shopping mall since the storm destroyed the school.

Rutgers bullying defendant sentenced

New Jersey Superior Judge Glenn Berman on Monday sentenced Dharun Ravi to 30 days in jail for spying on and intimidating his gay Rutgers University roommate, Tyler Clementi. Clementi killed himself in September 2010 after Ravi surreptitiously recorded him in a sexual encounter with another man. Berman told Ravi:

I haven't heard you apologize once. (Clementi) placed his trust in you without any conditions, and you violated it.

Ravi could have faced 10 years in prison and deportation to his native India, but the other man involved in the encounter, identified in court only as "M.B.," said in his victim impact statement he did not believe Ravi should be deported. In his statement, M.B. said:

I do not mind that Mr. Ravi has never apologized to me for what he did and said, but I do wonder if it ever has entered his mind that he has caused me a great deal of pain and yet he knows nothing about me.

What you gonna do when they come for you?

It was not just another Saturday night's work for police in Seattle. Officers had their hands full Saturday as they tried to control a bar patron who took off her clothes, covered her upper body in hot pink duct tape, and fought off all comers. Apparently back flips and kicks to the officers' heads were involved as well. CNN affiliate KCPQ has all the details.

99 bottles of beer on the road ...

A tractor-trailer carrying thousands of bottles of beer overturned on Interstate 95 in Volusia County, Florida, early Monday, spilling the brew and forcing authorities to close the road, CNN affiliate WKMG in Orlando reports. Watch out for drunken alligators.

This little piggy never made it to market

CNN affiliate KCRG tells the story of Olivia, a piglet who was badly hurt when she fell off a truck in Iowa but who fell into a new future away from the breakfast table.

On the horizon: Launch attempt, Colin Powell memoir

The private space company SpaceX will make a second attempt to send the first private spacecraft to the International Space Station, after Saturday's launch was aborted at the last possible second. Launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center is now scheduled for 3:44 a.m. Tuesday.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell's eagerly awaited memoir will be released Tuesday. Friends and foes of the George W. Bush administration are hoping the book, titledÂ "It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership," will shed light on the decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003.

"Proof read before you post your stories." Should be: "Proofread before you post your stories." Other edits in "This is middle school English mistakes and I'm sick and tired of reading all of them" were caught except the comma before the first "and".

Yes, Taiwan is the Republic of China, but you don't often hear people using the full "People's Republic of China" and "Republic of China" to distinguish between the two. It is more commonly "China" and "Taiwan", therefore "China" is automatically associated with the PROC. Everyone I know from Taiwan (and I know many) calls it Taiwan and they refer to themselves as Taiwanese. Sometimes I hear/see "ROC", and it says Republic of China on their passports, but everywhere else (including their license plates) says Taiwan.

With the personalities of alligators how would we know if one was drunk while sitting by the road. ðŸ˜‰ It's good to hear that Joplin, MO is getting things back on track, what an awful thing to have to go through.

Devout christians nailing themselves to the cross, wearing crowns of thorns, being tortured to depict Christ in festivals, shiite muslims carrying on flagellation and injuring themselves and other acts of religious fervor are nothing new.

In India, millions of girls are strangled, slowly starved or simply tossed in the trash. Moreover, in India, at least 1,370 girls are aborted every day. As a comparison, some 250 Indians die every day in road accidents. Terrorists killed about six people, on an average, every day in 2009. In the last two decades of economic progress, 10 million girls have died as such in India.
SHAME ON INDIA AND ITS BARBARIC AND MEDIEVAL CULTURE !!!
Indians have killed more human beings (girls particularly) than Al Qaeda and Talibans put together.

Multiculturalism. Diversity is strength. Everyone is equal but the color of their skin. We should let them immigrate here. When they cut their eyes out with samuri swords in sufi religious ceremonies, we can pay for eye surgery with Obamacare.

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